Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-07
NORTH CAROLINA.
AN ACTIVE REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN IN
TEE STATE PREDICTED.
Iron Bridges for Wake Ceunty-prepating
for a Big Tobacco SHOW
News Notes.
LspccIal telegram % thc pIspatcn.l

RALEIGH, \. G., December G.--J. G..
Il. Harris, secretary OF the Republican
State Executive Committee, lett to-day
for Washington to attend the meeting Of
the National Republican Executive Com
mittce. lie says that the committee will
give matters in North Carolina careful
and special attention, and will arrange
Tor an active campaign next year.
The WHke county commissioners had
Joint meeting with the magistrates to-
day and decided TO build several iron
bridges across the Neuse river to replace
those sw pit away last month. They
viii be the first iron bridges ever built
in this county.
In the United States Circuit Court to-
day the civil docket was taken up, and
the entire day was devoted to the arRu-
ment of one case before Judge Sey-
mOur.
Judge Bond left yesterday for Colum-
bia. lie spent Sunday at Newberne
with Judge Seymour
The increase in the membership of the
/ Farmers Alliance Is remarkable. As was
stated in yesterdays Dispdtch, thereare
200 alliances and 1900 members in
/ North Carolina Just now the order is
/ gaining strength very rapidly in the
Piedmont section and along the southern
border OF the State. The grand secre-
tary, Colonel l.. l.. Polk, yesterday aud
to day sent out the necessary books, &c,
for thirty alliances. lie says that fifty
/ lecturers could with advantage be en-
ployed IN the field. and the number will
f probably be speedily increased from e.
teen 10 chat figure. Colonel Polk says
the general public has 10 idea OF thepo
and extent Of this new movement OF the
farmers, but that it viii make itself felt
1t has been decided definitely to IN
crease the capital stock Of the Durham
Savings Bank TO $4,000 on the 10th
instant.
The trial Of David johnson and Dob
bin Sasnet at Washington, Beaufort
county, will certainly attract q great deal
Of attention. They are charged with
numbering Albin Satchwoll, well
known citizen. The latter had had the
two men indicted for selling vino on
Sunday. They declared that they would
be revenped, went to his house, made n
mark in bis yard, and dared him to step
out and cross the marx. Satchwell did
so, and was at once shot nthe abdomen.
He soon died of his wound. His
friends gathered and there was gene
raj fight, i'll which johnson was bad
~ cut, Sasnet nearly had his saull
broken with a club, and man
named Downing was painfully cut. The
grand Jury found a true bill against
johnson and Pasnet for murder, and both
viii this week be tired for their lives.
The trial will begin as soon as the trial
of Mrs. Susan I. Lincke and William
A. Potts for the murder of Paul Lincke
ends. This IS now IN progress, having
begun on the I'd instant. Potts will try
TO prove that he was temporarily insane,
while Mrs Liucke will cndeavOr to show
that she was not his accomplice. 1T Is
impossible, it appears. for Potts to deny
that he shot Liucke in the head while
the poor fellow lay asleep in his bed. 1t
is a very bad case, and of course feeling
runs high against Mrs. Lincke and
Potts.
Durham will, it is said, take active steps
for the holding of a grand tobacco ex-
position, something very complete and
very distinctive.
The State Board Of Agriculture meets
tomorrow morning, and will devote its
first DAYS session to the considering OF
the reports Of its ohicers-thc CQmmis-
sioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of
Immigration, Acting State Chemist. and
Superintendent of the experiment farm.
Thursday, it is now understood, will be
devoted to the election Of a State Chem
ist to fill the vacancy caused 10y Dr.
Charles w. DabDeys resignation TO
accept the presidency of the University
of Tennessee. 1t is probable that Dr.
Herbert b. Battle, son of Hon. Kemp
p. Battle, president of the State Uni
yersity, will be elected.
Colonel l.. l.. Polk, editor of the Pro-
grcSsiue Farmor, the State organ OF the
Farmers Alliance, to-day received an III
vitation to deliver an address on agricul-
tural topics before the students of the
University of Tennessee. He will proba-
bly, deliver il some time in January.
1t is understood that there are no
hopes Of the recovery OF that talented
gentleman, Professor w. Ct. Simmons,
for so many years professor OF higher
mathematics at Wake Forest College.
He is troubled with a brain affection,
and your correspondent is told that New
York physicians pronounce 1t lncuTable.
This is sad news.
Charles \. Hunter has resigned as
superintendent of the new State COlored
Normal School at Goldsboro', and j. W.
Perry has been appointed as his sue
cessor.
Work on thenew Third Baptist church
in this city will begin early next spring
The building will be handsome and com
modious. The Baptists are very earnest
in their work here.